How to: Convert SDLX Termbase to Multiterm
1. Open your SDLX Termbase with SDLX.
2. Select Termbase / Import-Export / Export Wizard
3. On the Wizard, select Tab-delimited text format. Define the desired destination (you may also want to set the encoding to UTF-8 just in case) and press Save and Next. Do not forget to press Select All two screens after that.
4. When the Wizard has successfully finished, go to the location where the tab-delimited txt file was stored and open it with Notepad. It will look something like this:
5. Click once inside the text and press Ctrl+A in order to select all the text. Now open a new Excel Spreadsheet and select columns A and B with your cursor, like this:
6. Now paste the text you copied from the txt file. If it doesn’t work the first time, select the two columns in Excel first and then copy and paste from the txt. As you see (hopefully), the text has been divided into two columns, making it easy to convert to Multiterm using Multiterm Convert.
7. Open Multiterm Convert. Press Next and select New Conversion Session. On the next screen select Microsoft Excel format and Next. Browse to your newly created Excel spreadsheet from Input File; you will notice that the other fields will populate automatically. On the next screen, highlight the first entry on the right and select the respective language on the left, under Index field.
Do the same for the second entry on the left.
Press next until the end and after the conversion you will notice three new files (.log. .xml, .xdt).
8. Now open Multiterm in order to create a new termbase and import the file you just converted. On Multiterm, select Termbase/Create Termbase and select the desired folder. When the Termbase Wizard appears, press Next and then ‘Load an existing termbase definition file’. Browse to the .xdt file that was created with Multiterm Convert and press next. Give a friendly (??) name to your new termbase and press next. Verify that the Selected index fields are correct and press Next until the end.
9. Now go to Catalog on the bottom left of your screen, right click on Import and select Process.
10. On the Import Wizard, browse to the .xml file that was created with Multiterm Exchange. Press Next and define the folder of an exclusion file (nothing important).
11. Press Next until the end and you ‘re done!
Now you can delete all the 56.654 files that were created during the process and just keep your new Multiterm memory to work with. You can also take a nap or eat something as this probably took you 20 minutes or so. There probably is another easier way to do this, maybe using a plugin or add-on, but since I do not trust plugins in such ‘delicate’ software, I prefer to do this the old fashioned way. Another important thing to do at this point is pray for companies/outsourcers/LSP’s to stop using old and obsolete software and finally migrate to newer platforms that they themselves created and made us buy! 
Note: You can input “Source language” and “Target language” on the A1 and B1 cells of the Excel file ( step 6) in order to have descriptive Index fields. I couldn’t be bothered! 
